After a very gray prelude to the day, the sun burned through the mist and fog which had crept into the harbor from the Bay of Biscay overnight. By 10 a.m. it was nothing but blue sky tickled by a few wisps of remnant fog on the medieval ramparts atop the three peaks lording over Donostia's twin harbors.
After my ritual café con leche and "elephant ear", I began about a 6 km trek to the terminus of the SW seawall and then up the opposite side of the NE mountain peak. The terminal end of the paseo, which follows the beach, lies almost directly across from the path I ascended yesterday in my climb to the upper most artillery emplacements guarding the larger of Donostia's two harbors.
I won't bore you with all the details now...we'll save that for our get-together this summer. Suffice-it-to-say, it was pretty much a repeat of the previous day, just new views, different perspectives and the same amazing ambiance.
The walk did take me past the "summer palace" and the remnants of the old Roman causeway that connected the south-western shore with the mid-harbor island.
It still amazes me to physically see and touch objects that were placed over a millennium ago...even walk upon the cobbles laid by Roman slaves those many centuries ago.
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| Remnants of the Roman causeway |
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| Catedral del Buen Pastor (Buen Pastor Cathedral) | |
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| Municipal building (foreground) Statue of San Sebastian on the ridge in background |
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| Paseo and seawall along beach of the Old City |
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